The National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, was conducting the review, according to two U.S. officials who spoke with Bloomberg View on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. In February Cohen-Watnick discovered Rice’s multiple requests to unmask U.S. persons in intelligence reports that related to Trump transition activities. He brought this to the attention of the White House General Counsel’s office, who reviewed more of Rice’s requests and instructed him to end his own research into the unmasking policy.

Rice should get a lawyer. Lake write that there is no evidence for wiretapping, but as we have noted, the media has already reported multiple times that Trump was indeed tapped. The Failing NYT has no self awareness of this fact it seems.

Journalist Mike Cernovich has also confirmed that Obama’s Admin broke the law and unmasked citizens in a political hit on Trump. Just based on this fact, it’s already a bigger scandal than Nixon’s Watergate. However, there is surely more to come as we delve into HOW they knew what they knew. Evelyn Farkus seemed to admit just that on the fake news show MSNBC Morning Joe: